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#213001 - 10/28/13 04:38 PM Re: Oh boy, this one's a toughie! [Re: jenny jenny]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
PRONUNCIATION:(pek-SNIF-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Pretending to have high moral principles; sanctimonious, hypocritical.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Earliest documented use: 1844
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sniff a S
SPECKSNIFFIAN - a mother-in-law on her first visit to her daughter-in-law's house.
#213002 - 10/28/13 05:08 PM Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 8,978 LukeJavan8
Carpal Tunnel
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Land of the Flat Water
----please, draw me a sheep----
#213003 - 10/28/13 05:10 PM Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 8,978 LukeJavan8
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Land of the Flat Water
----please, draw me a sheep----
#213005 - 10/28/13 08:13 PM Joined: May 2010
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old hand
old hand
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Posts: 958
Alaska
#213008 - 10/28/13 09:20 PM Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 7,498 wofahulicodoc
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Worcester, MA
PEEKSNIFFIAN - that'd be your K-9 Corps bomb-searching squad in action, dog and man together...
#213035 - 10/30/13 12:24 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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Worcester, MA
SMELLFUNGUS
PRONUNCIATION:
(smel-FUNG-uhs)
MEANING:
noun: A habitual faultfinder or complainer.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Smelfungus, a hypercritical character in Laurence Sterne's 1768 novel, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Earliest documented use: 1807.
NOTES:
Novelist Laurence Sterne modeled his character Smelfungus after traveler and author Tobias Smollett who complained about almost everything in his 1766 travel book Travels through France and Italy. Here's how Sterne describes Smelfungus:
"The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome, and so on; but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings."
USAGE:
"And a couple of smellfungus from the Official Paper ... carped that Issel chose to jump when the schedule reached its toughest stretch."
Woody Paige; Issel is the Wrong Scapegoat in Nuggets' Mess; Denver Post; Feb 13, 1995.
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SWELLFUNGUS - growing bigger truffles
#213041 - 10/30/13 11:10 AM Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 7,498 wofahulicodoc
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Worcester, MA
FALSTAFFIAN
PRONUNCIATION:
(fal-STAF-ee-uhn)
MEANING:
adjective: Fat, jolly, and convivial.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Sir John Falstaff, a character in Shakespeare's plays Henry IV (parts 1 & 2) and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Earliest documented use: 1809.
USAGE:
"His hair was long and scruffy, his ties ludicrous and his manner jovial bordering on Falstaffian; a board meeting, for him, was a debate, punctuated by gales of his maniacal laughter."
John Harvey-Jones; The Economist (London, UK); Jan 17, 2008.
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FALLSTAFFIAN
happily hiring extra help to rake up the leaves
(don't you just pine for a backyard full of evergreens)
#213045 - 10/30/13 03:23 PM Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 8,978 LukeJavan8
Carpal Tunnel
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Land of the Flat Water
----please, draw me a sheep----
#213046 - 10/30/13 03:48 PM Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,554 jenny jenny
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FAUSTAFFIAN - a friend of a friend of the devil.
#213050 - 10/30/13 05:54 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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...That'd be "a friend of a friend of a fiend"?
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